From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 12:49:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA25113 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:49:07 -0800 Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA25107 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:49:05 -0800 Received: (from bugs@localhost) by ns1.win.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA01281 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:49:41 -0500 From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <199503072049.PAA01281@ns1.win.net> Subject: Re: freebsd help (fwd) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:49:41 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 937 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > >pritchet@scsn.net writes: > > > > Is there a way to make the username/password longer than 8 characters? I'd > > like @ least 12. I'm using 2.0-release.... > > roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) writes: > > The 8 chars limit came from DES. If you want to use longer passwords,you > must not use the seperate securedist (US version) but only the builtin > scheme which use MD5. Beware that when using the MD5 version, you're > not compatible any more with the rest of the world... I think he really wanted longer usernames. Many Unix systems allow more than 8 character user names. One of the systems I badly want to convert/trash/ get-rid-of/burn/eliminate has 10 character user names. It is the last SYSV era machine left here. I am almost done with the changes that I think need to be made for this. I am blowing it out to 16 characters - why not live a little? Its FreeBSD! Regards, Mark Hittinger bugs@win.net